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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:04:30 +0100
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> This was already discussed on the pgsql-www list recently, but there has
>> >> been no resolution on what to do yet.
>> >
>> > What about using UTF8 for Russian text? Why not simply "iconv -f
>> > koi8-r -t utf8 ..."?
>>
>> I thought that was what Bruce was going to do. He has other priorities
>> at the moment though, so perhaps one of the the committers could
>> handle it.
>
> No, the conversion to a UTF8 header is done by the web infrastructure;
> the file in CVS is in the native Russian encoding, koi8-r, and I don't
> know how to change that.

That's the iconv -f bit suggested above, that I thought you were doing.

> However, it now seems all the FAQs are in ASCII or UTF8 so I think we
> are OK going into the future.

Yup, Magnus converted them.

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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